Juan Jos茅 Mill谩s is a Spanish writer and winner of the 1990 Premio Nadal. He was born in Valencia and has spent most of his life in Madrid where he studied Philosophy and Literature at the Universidad Complutense.
His first novel was influenced by Julio Cort谩zar and consequently shows the influence of the then-prevalent literary experimentalism, as well as the uncertainty of a fledgling author. Although very original, his second book, Cerbero son las sombras (1975), obtained the Premio S茅samo and received a positive critical response.
Thanks to an enthusiastic member of the judges panel for the Premio S茅samo, Juan Garc铆a Hortelano, he was able to publish Visi贸n del ahogado (1977) and El jard铆n vac铆o (The empty garden) (1981) with the prestigious publisher Alfaguara. But his most popular novel was Papel mojado (1983), an assignment for a publisher of young adult literature that was a commercial success and continues to sell well. Simultaneously, he began to publish articles in the Spanish press with great success, so he left the employment of the Iberian press and now makes a living as a journalist and author.
In his numerous works, which are mostly psychological and introspective, any daily fact can become a fantastic event. He created his own personal literary genre, the articuento, in which an everyday story is transformed into a fantasy that allows the reader to see reality more critically. His weekly columns in El Pa铆s have generated a great number of followers who appreciate the subtlety and originality of his point of view in dealing with current events, as well as his commitment to social justice and the quality of his writing. On the program La Ventana, on the channel Ser, he has a time slot (Fridays at 4:00) in which he encourages viewers to send short accounts about words from the dictionary. Currently, he is constructing a glossary, within which these accounts have a large role. His works have been translated into 23 languages, among them: English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Dutch. In his 2006 novel, titled Laura y Julio, we find his principal obsessions expressed: the problem of identity, symmetry, other inhabitable spaces within our space, love, fidelity, and jealousy.
匕賰乇鬲賳賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘賮賷賱賲 Shawshank Redemption 毓賳丿賲丕 賵氐賮 Red 氐丿賷賯賴 Andy 賵賯丕賱: I could see why some of the boys took him for snobby. He had a quiet way about him, a walk and a talk that just wasn't normal around here. He strolled, like a man in a park without a care or a worry in the world, like he had on an invisible coat that would shield him from this place. Yeah, I think it would be fair to say...I liked Andy from the start.
Querido Juanjo: Como ves, no pod铆a empezar el 2021 sin ti. Tus letras ya se me hacen necesarias entre libro y libro, para poder soportar la realidad de aqu铆 fuera. A veces, la iron铆a es la mejor cura para las situaciones que no nos gustan, como esta pandemia, o como la lacra que est谩 saliendo del interior de las personas, y del ser humano en general. Nos extinguimos sin remedio. Estamos postrados en coma, en una cama de hospital. Y lejos de buscar la mejor铆a de nuestro entorno, caminamos a grandes zancadas hacia la luz, igual que Manuel, el vecino extra帽o de Julio y Laura. . Esta novela me apasion贸, querido Juanjo. Me he involucrado completamente en el matrimonio de Laura, he tratado de entenderla, de entenderlo tambi茅n a 茅l, y te prometo que a ratos me he sentido cercana a los dos, pero la mayor铆a del tiempo no pod铆a comprender como hay personas a las que les vale. Les vale todo. Les vale la vida como viene y no sienten la necesidad de jugar bien sus cartas. Aunque reconozco que aqu铆, Julio fue el que m谩s me sorprendi贸. Quiz谩 fuera qui茅n m谩s ten铆a que perder, (o no) y el 煤nico que arriesg贸 a trazar un plan. Se autoexamin贸, y se diagn贸stico. Bien o mal, ya da igual. A 茅l le vali贸. Y a Laura? Pues no se si a Laura le vali贸, pero desde luego es a lo que decidi贸 aferrarse, a sus ideas de fantasmas, a sus sue帽os de ni帽a imposible, o a su baja autoestima sin ganas ni fuerzas para ver m谩s all谩.. . #Laurayjulio es una novela cortita. Mucho. Leer铆a mucho m谩s sin duda. Te atrapa desde el principio. Te absorbe completamente. Te hace pensar y sentir. Sobre todo sentir. Un libro totalmente recomendable de mi querido @juanjosemillas
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